African American Studies

American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795
Hardback
From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding

Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Paperback
A supremely talented young critic’s essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.
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American Slavery, American Freedom
50th Anniversary Edition
Paperback
The classic exploration of the connection between freedom and slavery, with a bold new introduction from prominent historian Annette Gordon-Reed

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Hardback
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he...

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
Paperback
An epic, award-winning biography of Malcolm X that draws on hundreds of hours of personal interviews and rewrites much of the known narrative.


